16+ hour, 34+ min ago   (887+ words) One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit? The Spectator Australia One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit? The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the…...

21+ hour, 37+ min ago   (861+ words) The Victorian government is proposing to decriminalise begging as an offence, but is this benevolence or perhaps something else more covert? The change is meant to stop the long arm of the law from snapping a set of cuffs on…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1052+ words) Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (534+ words) This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical. With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election ever, no amount of ‘NFL hoopla’ can mask the underlying truth that Victoria is headed for the rubbish heap of history…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (825+ words) It’s surely impossible to imagine Tanya Plibersek – Plibbers to most of us – ever being the prime minister of this country. (Mind you, we might have had the same thought about Albo.) But her name regularly pops up on lists of…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (161+ words) “I don’t agree with the Chief Rabbi.” — BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) September 9, 2026 Red Ed Miliband graced the airwaves this morning to inform the Chief Rabbi that he is wrong about the impact of UK sanctions on Israeli settlements. Sir Ephraim Mirvis…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (408+ words) The Albanese Labor government has announced that a digital duty of care will be imposed on social media companies to reduce online harm. The then Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland, in an address to the Sydney Institute in late 2024, foreshadowed the…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (377+ words) There are few phrases in international affairs repeated with greater confidence or subjected to less scrutiny than ‘illegal Israeli settlements’. It appears in UN resolutions, government statements, NGO reports and news bulletins as though it were an established fact. Add…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (25+ words) spectator.com.au The Battle for Britain | 12 September 2026 Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (196+ words) A balaclava on a British street is a small declaration: I do not want you to know who I am. Last weekend, that declaration was made in Dover and Portsmouth, where hundreds of men, many dressed head-to-toe in black, turned…...